adjective, happier, happiest. 1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person. 2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of mind. 3. favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land. 4. apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas. 5. obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. Everybody is gadget-happy these days. /ˈhæpɪ/adjective -pier, -piest 1. feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased 2. willing: I’d be happy to show you around 3. causing joy or gladness 4. fortunate; lucky: the happy position of not having to work 5. aptly expressed; appropriate: a happy turn of phrase 6. (postpositive) (informal) slightly intoxicated interjection 7. (in combination): happy birthday, happy Christmasadj.

late 14c., “lucky, favored by fortune, prosperous;” of events, “turning out well,” from hap (n.) “chance, fortune” + -y (2). Sense of “very glad” first recorded late 14c. Ousted Old English eadig (from ead “wealth, riches”) and gesælig, which has become silly. Meaning “greatly pleased and content” is from 1520s. Old English bliðe “happy” survives as blithe. From Greek to Irish, a great majority of the European words for “happy” at first meant “lucky.” An exception is Welsh, where the word used first meant “wise.”

Used in World War II and after as a suffix (e.g. bomb-happy, flak-happy) expressing “dazed or frazzled from stress.” Happy medium is from 1778. Happy ending in the literary sense recorded from 1756. Happy as a clam (1630s) was originally happy as a clam in the mud at high tide, when it can’t be dug up and eaten. Happy hunting ground, the reputed Indian paradise, is attested from 1840, American English. Related: Happier; happiest.

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Drunk, esp slightly so; tiddly (1893+) tool A dyslexic acronym for “A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator”. An LALR1 grammar parser generator for Haskell. Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using ghc, hbc or gofer. Happy uses an implementation of monadic IO built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the Haskell 1.3 standard has been implemented. Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28). Happy is covered by the General Public License. (http://dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html). (ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/). E-mail: , . (1996-03-21)

Also, happy as a lark; happy as a clam (at high tide). Extremely glad, delighted, very cheerful, as in He was happy as the day is long, or When she heard the news she was happy as a lark, or Once I got the test results I was happy as a clam at high tide. […]

noun 1. Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized. noun 1. (informal) a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper) noun a person who is very pleased or content Examples When he saw the report card, he was not a […]

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